The map room is a physical room-size wiki for collaboration from the 1950s https://interconnected.org/home/2023/01/20/map_room
It’s a mixed reality space. It needs the “space” part because it relies on embodiment; as the essay says, it matters where you are, what you’re focused on, what’s in your peripheral vision, what the others around you are looking at.
Seems like a killer app for HoloLens.
How to deal with complexity? What’s the right model for institutions beyond local/national? Why doesn’t the corporate model work in this domain?
This paper pulls from computation and social theory to point loosely to new ways of thinking about the world that might be useful in solving the problems we can clearly see. One of those cross-discipline things where each illuminates the other.
Source: The Internet Transition
Why don’t we use pinch to “expand” and “contract” audio volume? It’s analogous to those operations for visuals. Otoh, up and down are good, too.
This year I worked on fascinating projects in energy, media and health* at Magnetic, and learned many learnings. Tom Whitwell is Managing Consultant at Magnetic (formally Fluxx ), a company that…
— Read on medium.com/magnetic/52-things-i-learned-in-2022-db5fcd4aea6e
I’ve posted things from this guy before. He has an ear.
“There is only what is,” he wrote. “The what-should-be never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it.”
Lenny Bruce
I’ve been shuffling through old boxes of stuff I stored underneath my Mum’s house and happened across a box of old computer manuals. Rather than throw them away, she’s repurposed them as garden borders.
Peace as war by other means https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9521.html
A reasonable, well-argued and detailed proposal.
One in five American adults can’t read well. In some states, they’re just getting around to withdrawing state funding to schools that don’t teach math or English.
One in three American adults has a criminal record. In the US, a felony conviction generally means you can’t ever participate fully in society: housing, job, school, vote.
https://ai.objectives.institute/blog/ai-and-the-transformation-of-capitalism
Peter Eckersley died recently. I didn’t know anything about him, but two bloggers I follow independently eulogized him so I went down the rabbit hole.
He had an insight regarding the difference between intelligence and wisdom; the former as the ability to optimize to a goal, the latter the ability to determine goals. He started an organization called the AI Objectives Institute to push some thinking around the determination of good goals to apply AI to.
A second insight was the parallel between AI as we currently constitute it (back propagation, …) and capitalism as a system of optimization. Not just an analogy, it turns out, there are structural elements of each type of system that are he same (back propagation of price signals, …) that allow him to claim that capitalism is an AI system. So then he goes on to start thinking about applying the same sorts of mitigation that are used in AI to reign in unwanted behaviors.
Interesting guy.